Sent to prison

[Tropical]

Hello all,

I have found out from a uncle and a second cousin who don't know each other, that my gt grandmother was convicted of theft and sent to prison for a couple of years.

My gt grandmother was working for the Post Office at the time and going by what my uncle said it was the first woman to be sent to prison in the post office workforce. I am not sure when this happened, i can only assume it was between 1900-1930. It may well of been in the London area. All i know from family stories that she was a wheeler and dealer, into everything

My gt grandmother is and still is a mystery as i don't really know anything about her as there is so many surnames for her.

If anyone can give me some advice on how to find out about her time in prison and or point me in the right direction, i will so much grateful

Pam

[CaroleW]

Hi

You could try this link - click on the black & white sheep index

www.blacksheepindex.co.uk

[Tropical]

Thank you Carol for the link, i will have a look at it today, and hope that Rose maybe there

Thank you

Pam

[stanmapstone]

There could be a report in "The Times" what was her name?

Stan

[Tropical]

Hi Stan,

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.

Her first name is Rose (or variants) her surname/s could be Brotherton, Marks, Stone, Yarnold, and perhaps Elliott

Many thanks Stan

Pam

[wyndham]

Pam

You could try the Royal Mail Archives at:-

                                             The British Postal Museum & Archive
                                             Freeling House
                                             Phoenix Place
                                             London  WC1X 0DL

                                             infor@postalheritage.org.uk
               
                                             www.postalheritage.org.uk

If, as you say, she was the first female postal worker who was sent to prison, they just might have some record of this.

                             

[stanmapstone]

Hi Pam,
I can see no references in The Times with those names.

Stan

[jorose]

I don't know that she would have been the first. The earliest woman I can spot on Old Bailey Online is Harriet Underwood in 1881 - given 18 months hard labour for stealing a letter and receiving another while employed by the Post Office.  This case does not appear to have been mentioned in The Times, for what it's worth.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ - does have some hits for Stone and Elliott under mail theft in the early 1900s - not Rose, but possibly relations?